Keyword: access to information

What We Don't Know Can 'Kill' Us: Without Access to Information There Can Be No Real Democracy

Picture: Himmelskratzer Dale T. McKinley - A large part of the political, social and economic edifice of the apartheid system in South Africa was built on, and sustained by, the control of information and enforced secrecy.  This was at the heart of the anti-democratic character of the apartheid system. It was the glue that held together the institutionalised violation of the basic human rights of South Africa’s majority. The struggle against apartheid was fundamentally, a struggle for the democratic reclamation of those...